Building an ExpressionEngine 2 Site: Small Business

by Michael Boyink

So, you've heard about ExpressionEngine 2 - the rockin' web publishing platform from EllisLab? Or, maybe you've already purchased it, and now need a resource to help ease the learning curve? Meet "Building an ExpressionEngine 2 Site for Small Business"- a 398-page, 159 screen-capture bundle of development joy lovingly written with the sole purpose of getting you up to speed on ExpressionEngine 2 as quickly as possible. By reading this book you will learn how to create a full-featured, database-driven, easy-to-manage, and secure small business website complete with ExpressionEngine 2. The sample site's content includes a home page, an about section, products and services content, a weblog, and a contact form. Also covered are categories, relationships, handling 404's, implementing the EE search engine, optimizing the site for performance, and configuring it for client access. Now updated for ExpressionEngine 2.9! New content covers the recent Grid field, the Relationships fieldtype that allows multiple, nested relationships, and Template Layouts. EE is a moving target - buy the book that's keeping up!

398 pages, Paperback

First published September 2, 2010